Books

Publications

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Literary Neurodiversity Studies: Current and Future Directions. New York: Palgrave, 2025.
The Rivalrous Renaissance: Envy and Jealousy in Early Modern English Literature. New York: Routledge, 2025.
The Universality of Emotion: Perspectives from the Sciences and Humanities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Shakespeare and Disgust: The History and Science of Early Modern Revulsion. London: Bloomsbury, 2023.
Emotion in the Tudor Court: Literature, History, and Early Modern Feeling. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2018.
Historical Neurodiversity Studies: A New Paradigm. Under contract with Cambridge University Press, expected publication 2025.
Shakespeare and Emotion and Affect Theory. Under contract with Bloomsbury, expected publication 2026.
Early Modern Neurodiversity Studies. Co-authored with Melinda Marks and Emily Nicholls. Under contract with Edinburgh University Press, expected publication 2026.
Early Modern Theories of Emotion: A Guide to Printed Sources and Elite English Thought. Under contract with Bloomsbury, expected publication 2027.

Edited Collections/Issues

Neurodiversity in Early Modern English Literature. Co-edited with Bridget M. Bartlett and Laura Seymour. Under contract with Edinburgh University Press, expected publication 2026.
"Literature and Emotion." Special Issue of Emotion Review, 16.2 (2024).
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion. Co-edited with Patrick Colm Hogan and Lalita Pandit Hogan. New York: Routledge, 2022.
Positive Emotions in Early Modern Literature and Culture. Co-edited with Cora Fox and Cassie M. Miura. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021.

Articles/Chapters

"'Think Upon Incest and Cuckoldry': The Incest Theme and Jealousy in Early Modern English Drama." Co-authored with Ayesha Verma. Accepted by Philological Quarterly, expected publication 2025.
"Words in History of Emotion Research: Some (Slight) Limitations of the Lexical Approach." Accepted by Emotions: History, Culture, Society, expected publication 2025.
"Ugly Words, Ugly Deeds, Ugly Faces: Middleton and Rowley’s The Changeling and the Dynamics of Disgust." Accepted by Modern Philology, expected publication 2025.
"Early Modern Neurodiversity: A Preliminary Research Agenda." Co-written with Bridget M. Bartlett. ELH 92.2 (2025): 461-93.
"Historical Neurodiversity Studies: A New Paradigm of Experience." History and Theory (2025). doi:10.1111/hith12383.
“Early Modern Neurodiversity Studies.” The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Ed. Sonya Freeman Loftis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025.
“Just How Remarkable was the ‘Jealous Moor’? Othello, Jealousy, and Early Modern Racial Stereotypes. Shakespeare 21.1 (2025): 74-90.
"Shakespeare, Neurological Identity, and Early Modern Neurodiversity Studies: A Neurological Approach to 'Character.'" Co-written with Melinda Marks. Shakespeare (2024),
https://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2024.2444937.
“What’s in a Name: Can ‘Universality’ Be Resuscitated?” Style 58.3 (2024): 321-325.
“Negative Affect to Positive Resistance: Indignation in Césaire’s Une Tempête." In The Productivity of Negative Emotions in Postcolonial Literatures, ed. Jean-François Vernay, Donald R. Wehrs, and Isabelle Wentworth. New York: Routledge, 2024. 258-71.
"Jealousy in Early Modern England." Studies in Philology 121.3 (2024): 432-463.
“A Pre-Darwinian Account of the Facial Expression of Emotion: Thomas Wright’s The Passions of the Minde in Generall (1604).” History of Psychology 27.3 (2024): 292-96.
“Envy, Jealousy, and Emulation: Affective Rivalry in The Shepheardes Calender." SEL: Studies in English Literature1500-1900 62.2 (2024): 271-300.
“Boundaries and Disgust in The Duchess of Malfi.” Review of English Studies 75.319 (2024): 184-197.
“Close Reading: The Inveighing, Envying Martius in Coriolanus 3.3.94." Shakespeare 19.3 (2023): 377-386.
“Envy, Beelzebub, and Paradise Lost.” Huntington Library Quarterly 85.2 (2022): 347-357.
“Social Reception.” In The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion, ed. Patrick Colm Hogan, Bradley J. Irish, and Lalita Pandit Hogan. New York: Routledge, 2022. 317-327.
“Literary Feelings: Understanding Emotions.” Co-written with Patrick Colm Hogan. In The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion, ed. Patrick Colm Hogan, Bradley J. Irish, and Lalita Pandit Hogan. New York: Routledge, 2022. 1-11.
“Racial Disgust in Early Modern England: The Case of Othello.” Shakespeare Quarterly 73.3-4 (2022): 224-245.
“Envy, Leanness, and Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.” Early Theatre 25.2 (2022): 67-82.
“Envy in Early Modern England.” ELH 88.4 (2021): 845-878.
“Solidarity as Ritual in the Late Elizabethan Court: Faction, Emotion, and the Essex Circle.” In Positive Emotions in Early Modern Literature and Culture, ed. Cora Fox, Bradley J. Irish, and Cassie M. Miura. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021. 121-135.
"Introduction." Co-written with Cora Fox and Cassie M. Miura. Positive Emotions in Early Modern Literature and Culture, ed. Cora Fox, Bradley J. Irish, and Cassie M. Miura. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021. 1-17.
“A Strategic Compromise: Universality, Interdisciplinarity, and the Case for Modal Emotions in History of Emotion Research.” Emotions: History, Culture, Society 4.2 (2020): 231-251.
“‘Something After’?: Hamlet and Dread.” In Hamlet and Emotions, ed. Paul Megna,Bríd Phillips, and R.S. White. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 229-249.
“The Varieties of Early Modern Envy and Jealousy: The Case of Obtrectation.” Modern Philology 117.1 (2019): 115-126.
“Fulke Greville the Courtier: Courting the Ghosts of Sidney and Essex.” In The Measure of the Mind: Fulke Greville and the Culture of the English Renaissance, ed. Russ Leo, Katrin Röder, and Freya Sierhuis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 210-226.
“Historicism and Universals.” The Literary Universals Project. Ed. Patrick Colm Hogan. 2018.
"Coriolanus and the Poetics of Disgust.” Shakespeare Survey 69 (2016): 198-215.
"Friendship and Frustration: Counter-Affect in The Letters of Philip Sidney and Hubert Languet." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 57.4 (2015): 412-432.
"The Sidneys and Foreign Affairs, 1575-1578: An Unpublished Letter of Sir Henry Sidney." English Literary Renaissance 45.1 (2015): 90-119.
"The Literary Afterlife of the Essex Circle: Fulke Greville, Tacitus, and BL Additional MS 18638." Modern Philology 112.1 (2014): 271-285.
“The Rivalrous Emotions in Surrey's 'So Crewell Prison.’” SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 54.1 (2014): 1-24.
"'Not Cardinal, but King:' Thomas Wolsey and the Henrician Diplomatic Imagination." Authority and Diplomacy from Dante to Shakespeare, ed. Jason Powell and William T. Rossiter. Burlington: Ashgate, 2013. 85-99.
“Writing Woodstock: The Prehistory of Richard II and Shakespeare’s Dramatic Method.” Renaissance Drama 41.1-2 (2013): 131-149.
"Libels and the Essex Rising." Notes and Queries 59.1 (2012): 87-89.
“Henry Howard, earl of Surrey.” In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature, ed. Garrett Sullivan and Alan Stewart. 3 vols. Oxford: Blackwell, 2012. 2:511-516.
“Gender and Politics in the Henrician Court: The Douglas-Howard Lyrics in the Devonshire Manuscript (BL Add 17492).” Renaissance Quarterly 64.1 (2011): 79-114.
“Vengeance, Variously: Revenge Before Kyd in Early Elizabethan Drama.” Early Theatre 12.2 (2009): 117-134.
“The Secret Chamber and Other Suspect Places: Materiality, Space, and the Fall of Catherine Howard.” Early Modern Women 4 (2009): 169-173.

Public Writing

“RFK Jr. Said Many Autistic People Will Never Write a Poem – Even Though There’s A Rich History of Neurodivergent Poets and Writers. The Conversation, April 29, 2025.
“Shakespeare Knew What Modern Science Tells Us: Disability Discrimination is Fueled by Disgust.” Nursing Clio, August 9, 2023.
“How to Make Room for Neurodivergent Professors.” The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 2, 2023.
“Corpse Medicine.” The Collation (Folger Shakespeare Library), January 17, 2023.
“Why Are So Many People Delighted by Disgusting Things?” The Conversation, October 21, 2022.

Reviews

"Rob Boddice, The History of Emotions, Second Edition." Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 61.1 (2025): Article e7008.
"Paul Joseph Zajac, Emotion and the Self in English Renaissance Literature: Reforming Contentment." The Spenser Review 54.2 (2024): https://spenserreview.org/article/id/94.
"Richard Meek, Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and Culture.” Review of English Studies 75.318 (2024):102-103.